Welcome to my new website

Pages: recreated
Content: migrated
Domain: propagated
Website: launched
Heck: yeah

All that within ~a month is a new PR for me. I remember taking a lot longer to set up before, but that's the magic behind these builds. Once you set up a foundation, it becomes easier over time from past structures and reduced guesswork. Gonna take this moment to reflect on everything so far because it's been quite a month to get here.

If I had to rebuild it all over again (god forbid), I'd summarise the process with one question:

"How do I make it 1% better?"

Better for clients.
Better than the past.
Better within a deadline.
Better with everything I know now.

The answer? Self-review. Yes, it was very boring to do. I inspected everything I had done on my previous website. From the text hierarchy of my style sheet and blog layouts to the project pages and micro-interactions. I noted it down and started to work.

As I was designing these new changes, I'd find myself so in the zone that all I see were the details. Sections, paddings and buttons. It's all I saw for weeks on end, trading gym hours for extra build time, and that's when I started to wonder if you're making any progress at all. It wasn't until yesterday when I took a step back to look at it as a whole that things really started add up.

Analytics from conversion pages showed me what worked and what didn't.
One hundred blogs taught me how to customise a CMS from scratch.
Creating a filing system made content population that much faster.
Investing in my first domain gave me the wisdom to move it wherever.

So after my domain was successfully propagated, I decided to revisit my old website one last time before pulling the plug on its subscription.

They say "comparison is the thief of joy"

I say – not if you're the standard. Because as I surfed through my Squarespace pages, it looked like a visual representation of how much I've learned over the years. All the decisions I would have never improved if I hadn't decided to bite the bullet and recreate from scratch.

It's been a lot of work, but I've gotten better in the process of it and I'm happy with the progress I've made so far.

It's not close to where I'm heading, but far from where I was in websites and reality. There are missing components to be added, new pages I haven't included and projects I can't wait to share.

But that's a problem for future me cause I'm tired as heck, and tomorrow's back day. Until then, I'll see you around.